From Mardi Gras to marsh: Glass Half Full turns party glass into Louisiana coastline
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Glass Half Full, a New Orleans business, is recycling glass from bars and restaurants into silica sand used to rebuild Louisiana's coastline, which loses roughly a football field of land to the sea every hour. Early results show vegetation returning, sediment sticking, and wildlife moving into experimental islands and berms.
The work is currently constrained by insufficient glass supply and funding, limiting scale of impact.
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